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The cartoon guide to calculus / Larry Gonick.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : William Morrow, c2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 240 : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780061689093 (pbk.)
  • 0061689092 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Calculus
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 515.0207 23
LOC classification:
  • QA303.2 .G664 2012
Contents:
Initial conditions -- Speed, velocity, change -- Meet the functions -- Limits -- The derivative -- Chain, chain, chain -- Using derivatives, part 1 : related rates -- Using derivatives, part 2 : optimization -- Acting locally -- The mean value theorem -- Introducing integration -- Antiderivatives -- The definite integral -- Fundamentally -- Shape-shifting integrals -- Using integrals -- What's next?
Summary: Uses cartoons to discuss calculus, covering the basic ideas behind the field, functions, derivatives, integrals, and related topics.
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Includes index.

Uses cartoons to discuss calculus, covering the basic ideas behind the field, functions, derivatives, integrals, and related topics.

Initial conditions -- Speed, velocity, change -- Meet the functions -- Limits -- The derivative -- Chain, chain, chain -- Using derivatives, part 1 : related rates -- Using derivatives, part 2 : optimization -- Acting locally -- The mean value theorem -- Introducing integration -- Antiderivatives -- The definite integral -- Fundamentally -- Shape-shifting integrals -- Using integrals -- What's next?

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